Ptochoryctis simbleuta

Ptochoryctis simbleuta is a moth in the Autostichidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1907. It is found India (Assam).^[1]

The wingspan is 11–17 mm. The forewings are white, with some irregularly scattered black scales, especially in the disc. There is a patch of cloudy fuscous suffusion extending from the disc beyond the middle to the tornus and there is a pre-marginal series of black dots from four-fifths of the costa to the tornus. The hindwings are pale grey.

The larvae feed beneath a web covered with refuse and pieces of bark, on bark of shoots of the tea-plant, eating right through to the cambium, and thus killing the branch or plant. The larvae are brick-red.^[2]

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